In the last years, the scientific literature has reported an increasing use of hydraulic models to describe water distribution systems (WDS). Hydraulic models represent tools for managing the complexity of WDSs, and a number of optimization methods have been proposed to improve the performance of these infrastructures. However, because of the lack of available data on WDSs many works have only ...

The scarcity of freshwater resources, combined with deteriorating infrastructure, pushes water utilities to employ optimal operational practices control distribution systems (WDSs) based on objectives such as minimizing costs or leakages. This paper demonstrates a metaheuristic optimization framework for controlling WDS operations in near real-time by the total energy consumption, while maintai...